The Dillon tribune., 1887-10-07
MONTANA CONDENSED.
From Our Territorial Exchanges. AMI
Other Sources.

Other Sources.
The new building for the Warm Springs
Asylum will be completed by Oct. IS.
Surveyor Green has been ordered to re.
survey the south boundary Of the Crow
A through sleeper between St. Paul and
Fort Assinaboine on the Manitoba road is |
now run daily.
Ranchero, the Deer Lodge trotter, was
again beaten by Little Joe at Walla Walla
on last Saturday.
The great gold lead, the Greyhound in
the Castle mountains, is yielding ore that
is worth dollar pound.
The assessment for Fergus county will
reach nearly $:,3oo,ooo. There are report.
cd $4,000 sheep in that county.
The crops in Eastern Montana were new.
er better. There has been no frost and the
yield Of we'll ripencd vegetables and cereals
will be very large.
A butcher firm in Helena offer SIS, $50
ana $,s premiums for the first, second and
third best becves furnished them by De.
cembcr lst, at the market prices.
John Hamilton, Of Stevensville, Mis-
soula county raised this year 10000 pounds
Of Danish slaw cabbage, from 1000 plants.
He procured the seed from Canada.
The amount Of the assessment roll for
Silver Bow county, as far as made out, is
$7,,17,S39. When completed the forego.
ing amount will be increased nearly ST..
zoe, 900.
Business at the Helena postoffice con.
&inues to increase. The amount Of funds
passing through the Office in the quarter
ending September 3oth reached the high
figure Of $17o,ooo.
The time is not far distant when the
rushing torrents that hurry down from
our mountains will be utilized for the
turning Of machinery. Montana has sur.
passingly fine inducements for manufactur.
ing.
| Corning Il Co., contractors for Rock y
Fork and Cooke City railroad, have ship
ped tools, supplies, ETC., for their work, and
will begin operations at once. Teams and
men are on the way from the Manitoba
road to sublet work.
The grass on the Montana ranges was
perhaps, never more luNuriant than
it is this season and stock in most parts oi
the Territory is looking splendid. The
only danger to fear from now until the
snow flies will be from prairie fires.
Northern Montana is now rid OF two bad
characters: Golan and Godas. One a
half.breed Cree and the other a mulatto
Both are wanted elsewhere for crimes COM
mtted heretofore. They are both gone
now, and it is to be hoped that will be the
last Of them.
Last llmAiscuuu:: Another pioneer OF
Alder Gulch has gone to his long rest. J.
T. McClurg, one of the earlyday mer.
chants of Virginia City, and for the last
few years proprietor Of the county hospital,
died a. his residence in Virginia City on
Monday evening.
1t is stated that the Cinnabar coal field
has developed coal that will coke. This
will prove a great boon to the mining in.
dustry of Butte. Tests made Of the coal
are said to have returned better average
in weight by six per cent than the Penn
sylvania article.
The Deer Lodge water works have been
completed. \ nozzle can be attached on
the streets and stream of water thrown
zoo feet high and with force sufficient to
tear down building. This is worth more
than half dozen fire engines, and is lust
what Dillon needs.
1t appears that military rule is not all
that is claimed for it in the way of protec.
ton of game in the National Park. The
Livingston Enterprise asserts that forty. one
pair of ckhorns were hauled out of the
Park not over ten days ago, from where
they were cached by hunters.
Itwas no bluff with theAlicc Company 4,
Butte shutting down on the salt question.
At l., O'Clock last Friday night the Alice
whistle blew for the last time. The tc "
remaining men in the mine were let off,
and the stamps in the mill were hung up.
From 800 to 600 men will be thrown out OF
employment by the shutting down Of the
Alice
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